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Meaning: (idiomatic)To create adifficultsituation whoseunpleasantconsequencesone must now endure.1861,Anthony Trollope, chapter 27, inFramley Parsonage:It was true that he hadmade his own bed, and he understood the justice which required himto lie upon it.1919,W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 33”, inThe Moon and Sixpence,[New York, N.Y.]:Grosset & Dunlap Publishers[…],→OCLC:[...] one of the falsest of proverbs is thatyou must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage to evade the result of their folly.1949,Upton Sinclair,O Shepherd, Speak! Part I, reprinted, published2001,→ISBN,page120:Harry said, "It's too bad, but of course we couldn't attempt to smuggle him. The old manhas made his bed and he must lie in it."2005November 26, Bob Kropfli, “Letters: Second-Term Blues”, inTime:What has happened is that all the horrible moves he made during his first term . . . are perfectly evident to all. Bushmade his bedduring his first four years, andnow he has to lie in it.2008August 21,Steven Erlanger, “Europe Grows Impatient as Delays Pile Up in Georgia”, inNew York Times, retrieved27 June 2011:“Saakashvilimade his own bed,” said Nick Witney, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Affairs and the former chief executive of the European Defense Agency. “It was a pretty catastrophic miscalculation.”2010, Arlynn Leiber Presser,Blue-Jeaned Prince,→ISBN,page149:He hadmade his own bed, chosen his own course in life, taking the path of easy money over hard work and initiative.
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